Apple Patents a System That Detects When Your Device Is in a Case and Dials Back Its Radio
Your iPhone already knows when it's in Low Power Mode — Apple's new patent wants it to also know when it's stuffed…
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Apple Patents a Method for Interleaving Chunked Entropy Data Streams
Apple has filed a patent describing a way to weave two separate data streams together at the chunk level — slotting pieces…
Apple Patents a System for Silencing Flagged Devices at the eSIM Level
Apple is building a way for mobile networks to essentially freeze out a flagged device at the hardware identity layer — not…
Apple Patents a 5G Chip System for Monitoring Shared Radio Spectrum
Shared radio spectrum is a crowded place — Wi-Fi, radar, and 5G all compete for the same frequencies. Apple is patenting a…
Apple Patents a System That Predicts What You Want to Paste Next
Your phone already knows what you just read — Apple wants it to quietly offer that content the moment you open a…
Apple Patents a Dynamic Transmit Power System That Pushes Beyond Default 5G Limits
Your phone is often holding back its radio power even when the network would let it shout louder. Apple's new patent describes…
Apple Patents a Cross-Device Screen System That Reacts to Where You Place Your Phone
What if placing your iPhone on your iPad's screen automatically let the two devices share content — and the iPad could tell…
Apple Patents Adaptive Radio Link Monitoring for Air-to-Ground Cellular Networks
Keeping a phone connected to a ground cell tower from a cruising aircraft is a fundamentally different problem than staying connected on…
Apple Patents a Wi-Fi Handshake System for Ultra-Low Latency Transmissions
Before sending time-sensitive data over Wi-Fi, what if your device and router could agree on a special fast-lane mode in advance? That's…
Apple Patents Location-Aware Power Control for Air-to-Ground Cellular Networks
When your phone is cruising at 35,000 feet, it faces a completely different radio environment than on the ground — and Apple…
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